The DDs will stay under David Dinsmore. Despite hopes that a new editor might herald a new era for The Sun — one minus the bare breasts — Dinsmore yesterday declared that topless women are still “a good way of selling newspapers”.

BP today took out ads in US newspapers and wrote to lawyers acting for businesses it believes have received excessive compensation in the aftermath of 2010’s Gulf of Mexico disaster, warning that they may have to pay the money back.